Planet Larry is an aggregation of blogs written by users of Gentoo Linux. This is similar to Planet Gentoo, except it is by and for users rather than developers. If you use Gentoo Linux, feel free to contact me and add your own blog.

Intervals are a fundamental concept in learning music. This free
downloadable sheet music helps give examples and illustrates the
relationships between notes. - for the full article please visit the website.

The Radiance free 3D model repository is the world's first
photometrically accurate model repository, with a focus on both
correctness and aesthetics. It is completely open-source and free to
mirror and redistribute. You can download models as an OBJ, along with
material and light definitions. - for the full article please visit the website.

Technology is increasingly trending towards proprietary forms, which
have negative impacts on society. I describe the 5 fundamental
ingredients to keep software honest, and prioritise people over profit. - for the full article please visit the website.

This is an introduction to the fundamental concepts of IFC files and
explains how to improve data exports from Autodesk Revit to IFC. Out of
the box, Revit IFC support is very limited, but it can be mitigated
using an open-source plugin and understanding these undocumented quirks. - for the full article please visit the website.

This posts compares Radiance with modern rendering engines, such as
Renderman and Autodesk Insight. Radiance is seen as the gold standard
for light simulation, but more modern engines are becoming more
physically based and claim photorealistic results at a fraction of the
time. Why should we use one over the other? - for the full article please visit the website.

Now that I’m on vacation, I wanted to introduce you to a project I’ve spent a couple of weeks on a few months ago on ServiceNow.
I have already dived a first time in the ServiceNow API while I was working at the Governance of a SOC service. There I tried to integrate ServiceNow to our processes using Google script to enhance the service workflow throughput1.

Enscape provides real-time rendering with integration with BIM tools
such as Revit, ArchiCAD, and Sketchup. However, it has a limited set of
animation tools. Blender can be used to import Enscape camera animation
keyframes and composite new animations on top of the Enscape flythrough. - for the full article please visit the website.

The proposed Radiance Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (RFHS) is a proposed
standard on how to organise files for 3D models, HDR textures, Radiance
materials, IES lights, and so on in a Radiance project. This allows
Radiance assets to be easily distributed and reused across different
proejcts. - for the full article please visit the website.

IFC is the ISO standard format for storing BIM data. IfcOpenShell allows
you to use Python to query and parse IFC files to extract and analyse
data. As there is no API documentation as of writing, these code
examples give an introduction demo to how to read IFC files. - for the full article please visit the website.